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Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:05
AM
Subject: OT question and Hello
As a new member to this list I would like to
greet everyone. I have been enjoying the debates and found them useful. I am
currently embarked on a little project which is all about my partners' small
farm - a one man outfit and probably a fast disappearing way of life. I am
using a mixture if LF cameras as well as medium format and use enlarged
negatives made on Ortho film for the salt prints that I am
making.
I would like to make some images of my partner
going about his work, so will use MF, and would like to achieve for some of
them an 'anamorphic' look that I have seen elsewhere. It is not just that the
image is out of focus, but that it takes on a strange shape. I nearly achieves
this in one image where he was walking away and was in the background of a
shot. Is this the way it is done, can anyone tell me? I would like to have a
fairly extreme example of this - a suggested shape in the landscape to counter
balance the more prosaic shots I already have - I would be so grateful
for any advice.
With all good wishes,
Saffron
Brightlingsea. UK
PS have been having mottling problems with my
salt prints with high humidity and temperatures, so it is obviously not
confined to Gum!